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-3- to the adoption of the present ordinance and the resulting property setbacks will be consistent with those for adjacent properties . __Motion carried unanimously. The matter of the St. Anthony National Bank parking lot was reopened to receive the comments of Donald Best, 2342 Taft Street N.E. , re- garding the placement of the driveway to the lot on Lowry Avenue _rather than utilizing the existing curb cuts on Kenzie Terrace. He told them the residents on Lowry, Taft and Roosevelt were concerned that increasing the traffic flow along Lowry might eventually pro- mote a service road for the St. Anthony Shopping Center should the vacant lot at the end of Lowry be developed for a commercial use. He disagreed that having the driveway on Kenzie Terrace would impede the traffic along Kenzie Terrace anymore than the 38 curb cuts now being utilized along that road at the present. Although the Council was sympathetic to these concerns , there was no interest demonstrated to reopen the matter for inclusion of the driveway in the conditions under which the parking lot was approved. Mr. Rymarchick continued his presentation of the May 15 Board minutes by telling the Council the Board had two main concerns with the new concept for dual ownership of a residential unit as promoted by Sid Johnson for the double bungalows he has just built on 39th Avenue N.E. He said Board members were in agreement that some type of home owner- ship association would be necessary to handle disputes between owners • and the City should maintain control of the location of such develop- ments if the concept is adopted for the City. Mr. Soth commented on the issue saying the concept should correctly not be addressed as a "condominium" development since the state legislature has applied that description to a more dense and usually a three dimensional development where this concept would appear to have a closer relationship to a "townhouse" development. He felt to convert the double bungalows to dual ownership, there would h:,ve to be re-zoning and re-platting of the property as well as setbacl; and lot size variances granted. He saw the biggest problem for the City to get a townhouse concept where property has not been thus platted. He did not view a home owners association as being effective for six units and thought if utility services are provided through a common line, they could not be considered separate services. Mayor Haik, noting the Metropolitan Council ' s approval of the concept as one which would provide affordable housing for all segments of the populations, saw a conflict with the City' s desire to provide rental housing and said she would rather consider such a concept for property before it is built. There was no consensus from the Council for staff continuation of researching the concept and Mr. Rymarchick will report their lack of support to the Board. The Mayor directed him to also advise Mr. Bjorklund that Planning Board members are governed by the Open Meeting Law, a question he had raised at the last Board meeting. ,